Charge of the First Brigade Commanded by Col. M.B. Walker on the Friday Evening Frame Style:Verdigris Frame rendered with the hagiographic confidence

rendered with the hagiographic confidence of a print made for parlors that had survived the war

and the Pacific breaking white along Santa Monica's pier

where Main Street meant cattle drives and courthouse domes rose like small capitols

His Life in Pictures — a memorial volume frontispiece bending grief into hagiography

The likeness carries the careful gravity of a soldier still answering for a battle the army would never quite forgive him for

Charge of the First Brigade Commanded by Col. M.B. Walker on the Friday Evening Frame Style:Verdigris Frame rendered with the hagiographic confidenceCharge of the First Brigade Commanded by Col. M. B. Walker on the Friday Evening a battlefield lithograph that catches the brigade mid momentum, Walker's line surging through the failing light of a Friday that someone, somewhere, would remember for the rest of his life. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the